SPELLING TEST

If the Greek root word "pre" means before, what does a "pre-existing condition" does not mean?

• A medical condition that was there after diagnosis

• A medical condition that was created without cause

• A medical condition that was there before diagnosis

What is the number (5) of syllables in a line of poetry and the emphasis on those syllables called?

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  Rhymed Couplet

• 
  Hyperbole

• Iambic Pentameter

Which of these literary trends or movements were not influenced by nature?

• Transcendentalism

• 
  Romanticism

• 
  Regionalism

What these definitions are not irony?

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  a literary device to make the description of the story more vivid

• 
  a literary device to make the plot more predictable

• A literary device to surprise the reader with an unexpected twist

Who wrote Nature?

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• 
  Herman Melville

• Henry David Thoreau

Which are characteristics of Native American Literature?

• 
  Written Stories

• Supreme Being

• Tales and myths

What is meter in poetry?

• A group of lines forming the basic recurring unit in a poem

• Length of a line in poetry

• 
  Exaggerated statement not meant to be literal

Who is the Romantic author who is depicted as "The Gothic Great"?

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  Nathaniel Hawthorne

• 
  Henry David Thoreau

• 
  Edgar Allan Poe

Poe is looked upon as one of the great writers of the 1800's. What is this time called America?

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  Romanticism

• Transcendentalism

• Neo-Classicalism

Emerson used this literary device to allow for readers to feel, taste, smell, see, and touch the story's plot.

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  Diction

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  Symbolism

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  Imagery